Friday, February 8, 2019

A Lunatic Billet-Doux



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She or he was spawned by a random imagination –
Darwin’s mutation – but randomness shocks like
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a fetish in sex: surely we’re something compassionate
logic intends and projects! What would things mean
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if we weren’t? Predation has hungers to feed it.
Wouldn’t exist if the thing weren’t needed. But flowers
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and weeds in the breezes with no special ends are like
all that upends and distends and engenders this being:
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he or she loves to dress up to the uppity Up-ness, way out
with a shout beyond grout, gout and doubt and surmise,
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morphologically sprouting unreason, whatever the season,
and yet without effort sustaining a steady and gentle
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acknowledgment of all of the busy be-jeezus that teases
in front of, around and below and behind those kind eyes.
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Why should this be a surprise? Or why be surprised
at surprise? One wants to believe Truth is spherical.
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No ruptures to break its smooth skin. But what then to
make of the miracle? Which is every last thing in the spin?
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Surely nothing’s a miracle then. Oh no! oh-no, oh-no,
oh-no, oh-no, the she-and-the-he in her-her-and-her-him
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overflow in a bum rush to me. I was beginning to guess
at the rest. Never has oh-no seemed more like oh-yes.
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Language and life are a lunatic billet doux. Unsaddled,
unbridled – embracing, for no godly reason, you.
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